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email: [email protected]Does anyone know what
border controls will be in
force when a boat from the
UK is visiting France or any
another EU country, once we
have left the EU? Will we be
required to fly the Yellow Q
flag on arrival and seek
clearance. What border
controls will need to be
administered? Equally, what
are the requirements on
returning to the UK? Could
someone please advise?
Donald Wordsworth
by emailSwitch back to wooden boats
to save planet?
Given our worsening climate predicament and the mounting
problem of plastic pollution, are builders of plastic boats
tooling up to build in renewable wood, or do they see rising
sea levels as working to their advantage?
Robin Gates, Planet EarthWhat ever
happened to NyriaI have recently inherited a lovely
photograph in its original frame of Nyria
and I wonder if the Classic Boat readers
might know what happened to her?
Nyria was designed and built by CE
Nicholson in 1906. Mrs Workman
replaced the gaff rig making her the first
large racing yacht with a bermuda rig in- After this she raced and beat the
GL Watson-designed cutter Britannia.
The most recent information I have is
that in 1934 she was owned by a Robert
Young.
The photograph came from Ronald
Warren and Jean Lyon who were
members of Clyde Cruising Club, and
Royal Highland Yacht Club and Clyde
Corinthian yacht Clubs. It was then
handed down to my family and restored
by Fern Stewart this year.
Munro Stewart,
Dundee
More info on my parents’ boat?
I am trying to obtain some information about a boat my parents
once owned called Jose, and hoped you might be able to put this
enquiry into the letters page of your magazine.
My parents bought the boat in the mid 1950s and kept her at
Holme Lock on the River Trent, until she was sold in 1960 from a
boatyard at Gunthorpe Lock. She was 42ft (12.8m) long, built of pitch
pine on oak, and powered by a Gardner petrol engine.
Originally built in 1929 at the Ponsharden Shipyard, Falmouth, for
a Mr JC Annear, she was used for shark fishing. When built she was
32ft (9.8m) long but was extended to give a larger well deck and rear
galley.
She was later owned by a Mr A Williamson of Camborne, and kept
in Newlyn harbour. We were told that she took part in Operation
Dynamo and was later used as a fireboat on the Thames. After the
war she was bought by someone in the RAF, based in Sheffield.
If anyone has any further information or photographs I would be
very pleased to hear from them.
Geoff Maddox, Lymington
Haida 1929 and her original diesels
It was a rare treat to see the glorious photo showing some of the detail of
Haida 1929’s original diesel engine (June 2019 issue), but better still that
the owner chose to keep them, despite the pressure, no doubt, to replace
them with smaller, modern units, particularly given that she is a charter
yacht and the spare space might have been useful and profitable. If only
more yacht owners gave a little thought to the engines in their boats
before discarding them, expensively, for modern replacements. Old
engines like this tend to be very over-engineered and low-horsepower,
high-torque, low-revving beauties like Sabbs, Gardners and countless
other “museum pieces” continue to power workboats around the world.
My only complaint is that I would have liked more detail on these engines.
John Yates, by emailWill I need to
use the Q flag
after Brexit?